SCREENAFM(1)SCREENAFM(1)NAMEscreenafm - Build screen font metric file from bitmap description files
SYNOPSIS
/usr/bin/screenafm fontname bdffile ...
DESCRIPTIONscreenafm is used to build Adobe Font Metric (AFM) files for the
screen-width versions of a particular font. screenafm is usually
executed as part of the font installation procedure for a font. It
takes as input a font metric file for the font as a whole, and a number
of standard Adobe Bitmap Description format (BDF) files. It produces
one font metrics file for each BDF file it is given, describing the
character widths for that size of that font if screen widths are being
used. The Bitmap Distribution Format files provided as input to
screenafm must be given in order from smallest to largest.
The AFM files output by screenafm should be placed in the directory of
the font itself.
For more information about how to create and install fonts, see the
document Preparing Fonts, available on-line in
/NextLibrary/Documentation/NextDev/Concepts.
When screenafm is run, it looks for the AFM file for the given font in
the current directory, in the directory ../afm, and then in the three
standard AFM file directories (see below). The inclusion of ../afm is
often helpful when working in a conventional font source tree.
FILES
/NextLibrary/Fonts/ location of NeXT-provided fonts
/LocalLibrary/Fonts/ location of local fonts
~/Library/Fonts/ location of user fonts
Obsolete directories still searched by screenafm:
/NextLibrary/Fonts/{outline, bitmap, afm} location of NeXT-provided fonts
/LocalLibrary/Fonts/{outline, bitmap, afm} location of local fonts
~/Library/Fonts/{outline, bitmap, afm} location of user fonts
SEE ALSO
prebuild (1)
BUGSscreenafm shouldn't exist at all. This information could be directly
obtained from the output files produced by prebuild.
screenafm shouldn't look in ../afm or the afm subdirectory of the
standard font directories, since they're not supposed to be used
anymore.
4th Berkeley Distribution July 14, 1989 SCREENAFM(1)
